More than half the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed.
Gas turbines made by GE Vernova, at the on-site natural gas plant under construction during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.
The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.
A data center building during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US.
The leader of the UK’s insurgent Green Party said government shouldn’t be “strangling” business, as he tempered his left-wing bloc’s economic message ahead of nationwide local elections in May.
The leader of the UK’s insurgent Green Party said government shouldn’t be “strangling” business, as he tempered his left-wing bloc’s economic message ahead of nationwide local elections in May.
Jim Skea, chair of the UN’s climate science body, discusses the future of its crucial research after the US pulled its support.
A firefighter from the Slovak fire service works to extinguish a wildfire near the village of Avgaria, on Evia island, Greece, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Wildfires continue to burn on the Greek island of Evia the day after a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered its latest comprehensive report on the state of global climate science.
The average annual premium is projected to increase 4% to about $3,057 this year.
PUNTA GORDA - OCTOBER 10: In this aerial view, flood waters inundate a neighborhood after Hurricane Milton came ashore on October 10, 2024, in Punta Gorda, Florida. The storm made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in the Siesta Key area of Florida, causing damage and flooding throughout Central Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
With gas prices climbing due to the Iran War, interest in electrified transportation is on the rise.
A Smart electric vehicle drives through the streets in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Battery-powered vehicles make up about a quarter of all new car and SUV sales in Uruguay, thanks to tax exemptions and the cost of filling up at the pump.
Also: Green cement startup Sublime Systems lays off two-thirds of its workers.
Iranians collect water from the salt-encrusted lakebed of Iran's shrinking Lake Urmieh, northwest Iran on Jan. 23, 2015. Photographer: Scott Peterson/Getty Images
Bestselling novelist and winner of the Climate Fiction Prize joins Zero to discuss why she couldn’t ignore climate change as she told the story of girls in Nigeria.
Bestselling novelist and winner of the Climate Fiction Prize joins Zero to discuss why she couldn’t ignore climate change as she told the story of girls in Nigeria.
Water and mud polluted by oil sits in a creek in Goi, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Twenty years after the oil-pollution crisis in the Niger delta shot to world attention when the then military government hanged the author and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, residents in the region are seething with anger again that the problem hasn’t been fixed.
Also, how past fossil fuel distruptions have led to booms in solar and batteries
The emblem of the People's Republic of China displayed at the Great Hall of the People ahead of the opening session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, China, on Thursday, March 5, 2026. China’s leadership is meeting in the shadow of crises abroad this week, as it puts the finishing touches on its blueprint for growth through 2030 and unveils plans to insulate the economy from global turmoil. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
Past oil crises forced countries to cut fuel use and pay high prices, but now falling prices of clean tech offer another solution.
A solar panel sits atop the roof of a store as traffic and pedestrians pass by below in Sujawal, Sindh, Pakistan, on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Rural Pakistanis are increasingly turning to renewable energy to circumvent the country’s notoriously unreliable power supply.
Jason Bordoff, a climate and energy expert, joins Zero to talk about how the conflict in the Middle East could affect the transition to green energy.
Demonstrators during a protest in support of regime change in Iran in Times Square in New York, US, on Monday, March 2, 2026. The US sent conflicting messages about how long a war with Iran might last as Israel launched new airstrikes on Monday, with the widening conflict reverberating across the Middle East and upending energy markets.
Higher energy prices could make green alternatives more attractive, but harder to deploy.
Smoke rises from Jebel Ali port after an Iranian missile attack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday, March 1, 2026. Iran launched an unprecedented wave of airstrikes in the region in response to US and Israeli strikes starting Saturday, targeting American bases and fracturing the emirate’s long-held image of a haven in a tough neighborhood. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg
Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, joins the Zero podcast to discuss whether climate change and AI make our society vulnerable or, perhaps, more resilient.
Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, joins the Zero podcast to discuss whether climate change and AI make our society vulnerable or, perhaps, more resilient.
The megalithic entrance to the Kalasasaya mound at Tiwanaku .
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